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STATE OF LOUISIANA. 

OFFICE OF 

State Superintendent of Public Education 



Baton Rouge, July 1^0, 1906. 

To School Officials: 

This Circular contains School Laws enacted 

hy the Second General Assembly, under the Constitutioii 

of 1898. 

/. B. AS WELL, 

State Superintendent of Public Education, 



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State Teacher's Certificate, ^^^ 

Act No. 55. • l " " 

AN ACT 

To define a State teacher's certificate and providing under what 

conditions same shall be granted; also, providing for a 

State Board of Examiners. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That to obtain a State teacher's certificate, 
the applicant must be, found competent to teach all of the sub- 
jects now required for a first grade teacher's certificate, and 
also literature, chemistry, loookkeeping, Latin, general history, 
botany, history of education, psychology, and school adminis- 
tration ; provided, that the graduates of all institutions of 
learning authorized to confer diplomas under the laws of this 
State, be credited with having past a satisfactory examination 
for said Staf e teacher 's certificate in such of the 'required sub- 
jects as, by the president of said institutions, may be certified 
to as having been completed in the course of study of the appli- 
cant, excepting theory and art of teaching, history of education, 
psychology, and school administration. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That a State teacher's 
certificate shall entitle the holder to teach in any parsh.of the 
State, for a term of ten years, from date of said certificate after 
which same may be renewed by the State Board of Examiners. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the examination 
for a State teacher's certificate shall, be conducted by a State 
'board of examiners, same to consist of the State Superintendent 
of Public Education, the President of the Louisiana State Uni- 
versity and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and the Presi- 
dent of the Louisiana State Normal School, under. such rules 
and regulations as may be adopted by the said State Board of 
Examiners, provided that it shall be optional upon all teachers 
to take advantage of this Act. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the State Board 
of Examiners shall issue State teachers' certificates as provided 
for in this Act. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc.. That all laws or parts 
of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 



Election of School Boards. 

Act No. 60. 

'AN ACT. 

Providing for the election of members of the Parish School 
Boards, the number from each parish, their qualifications, 
terms of office and compensation. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 

State of Louisiana, That there shall be elected by the qualified 



electors of each police jury ward of the several parishes in the 
State a member cf the Parish School Board for each police 
member in said ward, and in the Parish of Orleans the l-'arish 
School Board shall consist of seventeen members, being one from 
each ward in said parish, who shall be elected by the qualified 
voters cf each ward. That the first election above provided for 
shall take place at the same time as the consrressional election 
in 1908, and every four years thereafter. That such members 
(>f the Parish School Boards as may be elected as above provided 
for shall hold their office for four years, when their successors 
shall be elected. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the compensa- 
tion of said members of the school board is hereby fixed at three 
dollars for each day that he may be required to attend the meet- 
ings of the board, and five cents a mile for each mile he may 
travel to and from the meetings of said board. Provided, that 
in the Parish of Orleans no compensation at all shall be paid 
any member of said board. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc. That the Parish School 
Boards as now constituted shall hold their office until their suc- 
cessors shall have been elected as provided for in Section 1 of 
this Act. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the qualifica- 
tions of a person to be a member of a school board under this Act 
shall be that he be a qualifi^ed elector, able to read and write, 
and own and be assessed in his own name property to the value 
of three hundred dollars. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc.. That all laws and 
parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby 
repealed. 



School Bonds. * 

Act No. 84. 

AN ACT. 

To authorize parishes, municipal corporations, and parish boards 
of school directors, the Parish of Orleans excepted, to issue 
bonds for certain public purposes to be secured by special 
taxes voted therefor, and to provide for the manner of the 
issuance of the said bonds. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That parishes, municipal corporations, and 
parish boards of school directors, the Parish of Orleans ex- 
cepted, shall have the authority to fund into bonds issued in 
conformity to the provisions of this Act, the proceeds of special 
taxes voted and carried, or that may be voted and carried here- 
after under the authority of Article 232 of the Constitution and 
the laws carrying the same into effect, for the purpose of eon- 
stracting and erecting public buildings, public school houses, 



bridges, wharves, levees, sewerage work, and other works of 
permanent public improvement, the title of which shall be in 
the public. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the bonds issued 
under the authority of this Act shall mature annually upon the 
dates to be determined and fixedby the issuing body and shall 
conform as to their several amounts and maturities to the sum 
of the avails of the special tax and the date of its availability, 
the said sum to be estimated upon the tax rolls of the year in 
which the tax is voted; that the said bonds shall not bear a 
greater rate of interest than five per centum per annum, which 
shall be paid annually or semi-annually on dates to be specified 
in the bonds, and in the interest coupons thereto attached, and 
that each bond shall bear across its face printed in red letters, 
the following certificate : I hereby certify that I have examined 
the proceedings prior and relative to the voting of said special 

tax, the resolutions, ordinances, and other proceedings of 

(naming the issuing body), pursuant to which this bond was 
issued, that the said proceedings are regular in form, and that 
the proceeds of the special tax dedicated to the payment of the 

same, estimated upon the tax roll of the said — for the 

year in which the tax was voted, that is to say, the year 19 — , 
will be ample for the payment of the said bond, principal and 
in*^erest. This the — day of , 19 — . 



District Attorney, 
Judicial District. 



The foregoing certificate shall be signed by the District. 
Attorney of the Judicial District in which the parish, municipal 
corporation, or parish board of school directors is situated or 
domiciled, and thereafter the said bonds shall be incontestable 
^or any cause after three months from the date of the promul- 
gation of the result of the said special election, except for fraud 
iij their issuance. The District Attorney shall receive as com- 
pensation for his services in making the examination and cer- 
tificate required by this Act. one-tenth of one per centum of the 
total amount of the bonds thus certified by him, but in no case 
shall he receive less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred 
dollars for any such service, to be paid by the parish, municipal 
corporation, or narish board of school directors issuing the said 
bonds; provided that the provisions of this section shall not 
prevent the police .iuries, municipal authorities or parish board 
of school directors from stipulating in said bonds that same may 
be redeemed before maturity at their option. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That parishes, mu- 
nicipal corporations, and parish boards of school directors shall, 
through their respective governing bodies, before the issuance 
of bonds under this Act, and in contemplation of the same, in 
each case, pass and adopt an ordinance or resolution setting 



forth substantially the denominations, form and phraseology of 
the bonds and interest coupons and specifically dedicating the 
proceeds of the special tax voted for that purpose to the pay- 
ment of the bonds, both principal and interest as they mature 
and in the case of parishes and municipal corporations levying 
the said tax for the whole term or series of years for which it 
was voted, and the fund thus dedicated shall not be diverted to 
any other purpose whatsoever, so long as any bond of the series 
shall be outstanding and unpaid. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or 
parts of laws in conflict with or contrary to the provisions of 
this Act. be pud the same are hereby repealed. 



Inheritance Tax. 

Act No. 109. 

AN ACT 

To carry into effect Article 235 and 236 of the Constitution, 
and to levy taxes solely for the support of the public schools 
on all inheritances, legacies and other donations mortis 
causa, to provide exemptions therefrom, to prescribe the 
manner of collecting the same, to fix the fees of attorneys 
and commissioners of tax-collectors, and to repeal all con- 
flicting laws. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That there is now and shall hereafter be 
levied, solely for the support of the public schools, on all in- 
heritances, legacies and other donations mortis causa to or in 
favor of the direct descendants or ascendants of the decedent, 
a tax of two per centum, and on all such inheritances or dispo- 
sitions to or in favor of the collateral relatives of the deceased, 
or strangers, a tax of five per centum on the amount or the 
actual cash value thereof at the time of the death of the decedent. 
Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., The said tax shall 
not be imposed in the following cases : 

a. On any inheritance, legacy or other donation mortis 
causa to or in favor of any ascendant or descendant of the dece- 
dent below ten thousand dollars in amount or value. 

b. On any legacy or other donation mortis causa to or' in 
favor of an educational, religious or charitable institution. 

c. When the property inherited, bequeathed or "donated 
shall have borne its just proportion of taxes prior to the time 
of such donation, bequest or inheritance. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., It shall be unlawful 
for any heir, legatee or other beneficiary of a donation mortis 
causa to take or be in possession of any part of the things or 
property composing the inheritance, legacy or other donation 
mortis causa, or to dispose of the same or any part thereof, until 



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he shall have obtained the authority of the court to that effect, 
as hereafter provided ; and in case he shall so take or be in pos- 
session or shall so dispose of such things or property, or any 
part thereof, he shall no longer have the right of renouncing such 
inheritance or donation mortis causa, and shall remain personally 
liable for the tax thereon; but he may, without waiting for au- 
thority do such acts as may seem necessary to preserve the 
property from waste,, damage or loss. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., The executor of the 
will of a person deceased, or the administrator of his succession, 
shall, after payment of his debts, proceed against the tax col- 
lector and all the heirs and legatees of the deceased summarily, 
by rule before the court which has jurisdiction of the succession, 
to fix the amount of tax due by each heir or legatee, and on 
trial thereof the court shall render judgment for the same against 
each heir or legatee, with interest and costs, as hereinafter pro- 
vided. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc., The executor or ad- 
ministrator shall thereupon pay to the tax-collector the amount 
of tax, with interest and costs, so fixed, on each inheritance, 
legacy or donation, out of the funds comprised therein, if suf- 
ficient. Should there not be sufficient funds, the court shall, on 
the application of the heir or legatee, grant an order for the 
sale of the property composing such inheritance, legacy or dona- 
tion, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose 
of paying such judgment. If the same be not paid by the heir 
or legatee, or an order of sale be not granted, as above provided 
within thirty days after the date of the judgment, the court 
shall, on the application of the executor or administrator, grant 
an order of sale for the said purpose, as above provided, and the 
executor or administrator shall pay the said judgment out of 
the proceeds of the sale. 

Such sale shall be made in such manner, and on such terms 
and conditions as the court shall prescribe, and the expense 
thereof shall be borne by the heir or legatee. 

Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc.. No executor or ad- 
ministrator shall deliver any inheritance or legacy until the tax 
thereon shall be fixed and paid, as hereia provided; otherwise 
he, together with his surety, shall be personally liable for said 
tax, with interest and cost. And no exesutor, or administrator 
shall be discharged until it. is shown that all taxes under this 
Act, due by the heirs and legatees, have been paid, or until it 
h judicially deteniiined by the process herein provided that no 
tax is due. 

Section 7. Be it further enacted, etc.. In all cases in which 
an administration is not ordered by- the court, the legal or in- 
stituted heir, or universal or residuary legatee, shall within six 
months after the death of the decedent, or, should there be a 
will, within the same time after the discovery of the same, pre- 



sent to the court a detailed descriptive list, sworn to and sub- 
scribed by him, of all items of property contained in and com- 
posing the estate of the decedent, and therein shall state the 
actual cash value of each such item at the time of the death of 
the decedent, and service thereof shall be made on the tax col- 
lector who hall have the right to traverse the same. Should the 
deceased have made special or particular legacies or donations 
mortis causa, the legatee shall also be served, and after sum- 
marily hearing the said parties the court shall fix the amount 
of tax due as aforesaid by each such heir or legatee, and shall 
render judgment therefor, with interest and cost, against each 
of them. 

Section 8. Be it further enacted, etc.. In the same manner 
as provided in Section 5, the heir or universal or residuary 
legatee shall thereupon pay or take measures for the payment 
of the tax due on all special or particular legacies or donations. 

Section 9. Be it further enacted, etc.. The heir or universal 
or residuary legatee may likewise obtain an order for the sale 
of the property of hjs inheritance or legacy, or part thereof, for 
the purpose of paying the tax thereon. But if such tax be not 
paid, or such order of sale be not made within thirty days after 
the date of the judgment fixing the amount of the tax, a similar 
order for the same purpose shall be granted on the application 
of the tax collector, and thereunder any property forming part 
of the inheritance or legacy may be sold, and the proceeds thereof 
shall be applied to the payment of the tax with interest and 
costs. 

Section 10. Be it further enacted, etc., The heir or resid- 
uary or universal legatee shall not deliver any legacy until 
the tax thereon shall have been fixed and paid ; otherwise he shall 
be personally liable for the said tax, with interest and costs. 

Section 11. Be it further enacted, etc., If during the six 
months next following the death of ajiy person, leaving property, 
movable or immovable, within this State, an administration of 
his succession be not applied for, or his legal or instituted heir 
or. universal or residuary legatee do not apply to the court to 
be placed in possession thereof, as herein provided, the court 
shall ex parte and on the application of the tax collector grant 
•an order directing that a search be made for the will of the de- 
ceased by a notary public, and in aid of the same may order that 
all persons having in their possession or control any books, pa- 
pers or documents of the deceased, or any bank-box, safe deposit 
vault or other receptacle likely or designed to contain the same, 
shall open such receptacle and exhibit the contents thereof, as 
well as all other books, papers and documents of the deceased, to 
the said notary. 

Section 12. Be it further enacted, etc.. Should the said 
notary find any document appearing to be the will of the de- 
ceased, he shall take possession of the same and produce it in 



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court; and on application of the tax collector, or of any party 
in interest, the court shall proceed to the probate thereof, as 
row provided by law. If an executor be therein appointed, the 
person named shall be notified, and if he do not within ten days 
, after notification accept the appointment, and if within the ten 
days next following this delay no person entitled to be appointed 
dative testamentary executor shall apply for the appointment, 
then the Public Administrator in the Parish of Orleans, and in 
the other parishes the tax collector, shall be appointed dative 
testamentary executor of the said decedent, and the administra- 
tion of his succession shall proceed as herein directed and accord- 
ing to existing law. 

Section 13. Be it further enacted, etc., If the notary can 
find no will, he sTiall report the fact to the court ; and tliereupon 
the tax collector shall proceed against the legal heir or heirs of 
the deceased summarily by rule to fix the amount of tax due by 
him or them, and each of the heirs shall be ordered, within a 
delay to be fixed by the court, which may be extended from time 
to time in the discretion of the court, to make and file a detailed 
descriptive list, sworn to and subscribed by him, of all the 
items of property contained in and composing the estate of the 
decedent, stating therein the actual cash value of each such item 
at the time of the death of the decedent, and the tax collector 
shall have a right to traverse the same. On trial of the rule the 
court shall fix the amount of tax due by each of the heirs, and 
shall render judgment for the same against each of them, and 
in such case, as well as in the cases mentioned in Section 32, 
shall include in the costs payable by the heir or legatee a fee 
of not more than ten per cent, on the amount of tax due by each 
heir or legatee in favor of the attorney for the tax collector. In 
the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in 
Sections 5 and 9 of this Act, such heirs or legatees shall have 
the right to procure the sale of their inheritances or legacies 
for the purpose of paying the tax due thereon, with interest, 
costs and attorney's fees; and if payment thereof be not made 
by the heir or legatee, or if an order of sale, as above provided, 
be not granted, within thirty days' after the date of the judg- 
ment, the tax collector shall be entitled to a similar order, and 
thereunder any property forming part of the inheritance or 
legacy may be sold. 

Section 14. Be it further enacted, etc., Should there be more 
than one legal or instituted heir or universal or residuary lega- 
tee any one of them may institute the proceedings provided by 
this Act, and the others shall be made parties thereto, and such 
heir shall be entitled to recover out of the mass of the succession 
one reasonable attorney 's fee, besides his costs. 

Section 15. Be it further enacted, etc., Nothing contained 
in this Act shall affect the rights of creditors of persons deceased, 
or the rights of the creditors of the heirs or legatees of such per- 
sons, as established by the general law. 



Section 16. Be it further enacted, etc., Each inheritance 
or legacy is indivisible, and must be accepted or renounced for 
the whole; and the heir or legatee shall not be entitled to be 
placed in possession of the same, and shall be without right or 
capacity to alienate any part thereof, until the tax on the whole 
shall have been fixed and paid, or until it shall have been 
judicially determined, in the manner herein provided, that no 
part of the same is subject to the tax imposed by this Act. 

Section 17. Be it further enacted, etc., No bank, banker, 
trust company, warehouseman, or other depositary and no per- 
son or corporation or partnership having on deposit or in pos- 
session or control any moneys, credits, goods or other things or 
rights of value for a person deceased, or in which he had any 
interest, and no corporation the stock or registered bonds of 
which are owned by a person deceased shall deliver or transfer 
such moneys, credits, stock, bonds or other things or rights of 
value to- any heir or legatee of such deceased person, unless the 
tax due thereon under this Act shall have been paid, or unless 
ic be judicially determined in the manner herein prescribed 
that no tax is due by such heir or legatee. Otherwisa the person 
or corporation so making delivery or transfer shall be liable 
for the said tax. But the order of a court of competent juris- 
diction, directing such delivery or transfer, shall be full au- 
thority for the same. 

Section 18. Be it further enacted, etc., The burden of prov- 
ing facts establishing exemption from the tax imposed by this 
Act is upon the person claiming exemption. 

Section 19. Be it further enacted, etc.. The District Court 
of the last domicile of the deceased, and in the Parish of Orleans 
the Civil District Court, shall have original jurisdiction to hear 
and determine all the proceedings provided by this Act. In 
the case of a non-resident decedent, the District Court, or Civil 
District Court, of any parish in which he left property, movable 
or immovable, shall exercise such jurisdiction, and the court 
in which such proceedings shall be first begun shall have exclu- 
sive original jurisdiction thereof. 

Section 20. Be it further enacted, etc., Non-residents and 
unknown heirs and legatees, and those whose whereabouts are 
unknown, shall be represented by curator ad hoc appointed by 
the court, and all notices, citations and demands prescribed by 
this Act shall be served on such officers. Though there be in 
any case more than one unknown or absent heir or legatee, all 
may be represented by the same curator. 

Section 21. Be it further enacted, etc.. The tax collector 
spoken of and intended by this Act is the Sheriff and ex-officio 
Tax Collector of the parish in which was the last residence of 
the decedent, or in which is situated property of a non-resident 
decedent, and in the Parish of Orleans the Clerk of the Civil 
District Court. They shall receive a commission of two per cent 
on their collections of taxes under this Act. 



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Section 22. Be it further enacted, etc., In and for the Par- 
ish of Orleans the Governor shall appoint, by and with the ad- 
vice and consent of the Senate, for a term of four years, an 
attorney at law, whose duty it shall to advise, assist and repre- 
sent the Clerk of the Civil District Court in the enforcement of 
this Act. For his services, except as provided in Sections 12 
and 13, he shall receive a fee of four per cent on all taxes 
collected hereunder, payable out of the same before transmis- 
sion to the Treasury. In all other parishes of the State the said 
duties shall be performed by the • attorneys appointed under ex- 
isting law to assist the tax collectors in the collection of de- 
linquent licenses, and the compensation of such attorneys shall 
be as above provided. 

Section 23. Be it further enacted, etc., In fixing the value 
of any legacy or donation mortis causa which consists in whole 
01 in part of an annuity or usufruct or right of use or habitation, 
the court shall consider the expectancy of life of the legatee or 
donee according to the table known as the American Experience 
Table of mortality, at six per cent per annum compound interest. 
Section 24. Be it further enacted, etc.. The taxes hereby 
levied shall bear interest at the rate of two per cent p«r month, 
beginning six months after the death of the decedent; saving 
to any heir, legatee or donee the right to stop the running of 
interest against him by paying the amount of his tax with ac- 
crued interest, or by tendering the same to the tax collector 
m the manner prescribed by the general law ; provided, however, 
that in cases in which the settlement of the succession is not 
linduly delayed, or in which the right of any party to receive 
an inheritance or legacy is contested, and in all cases in which 
the failure to pay tax on any legacy or inheritance within the 
period aforesaid ■ is not imputable to the laches of the heir or 
legatee, the court may, in its discretion, remit such interest. ■ 
Section 25. Be it further enacted, etc., The costs of all pro- 
ceedings under this Act shall be borne by the mass of the suc- 
cession ; provided, that in cases in which it seems to him equitable 
t:) do so the judge shall have power to apportion the costs among 
the several parties, or allow any party to retain his costs out 
oi' any sum found to be due by him for tax hereunder. Provided, 
the provisions of this Act shall affect all successions not finally 
closed, or -in which the final account has not been filed. 



Branches, Sessions, Certificates, Exami- 
nation Fee, and Exemptions. 

Act No. 133. 

AN ACT 

To amend and re-enact Sections 23, 49, 53 and 59 of Act No. 214 
of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana ap- 
proved July 10th, 1902, entitled: "An act in relation to 
free public schools, and to regulate public education in the 



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State of Louisiana : to provide a revenue for the same, and 
impose certain penalties ; and to apply fines imposed by 
district courts and amounts collected on bonds, to the pur- 
pose of public education." 
Section 1.- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That Sections 2'i, 49, 53 and 59 of Act 214 
of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, approved 
July 10th, 1902, be amended and re-enacted to read as fol- 
lows, viz : 

Section 23. Be it further enacted, etc., That the branches 
F orthography, reading, writing, drawing, arithmetic, geography, 
gi'ammar. United States history, the laws of- health, including 
the evil effects of alcohol and narcotics, shall be taught in every 
district. In addition to these, such other branches shall be 
taught as the State Board of Education and the parish school 
boards may require ; provided, that these elementary branches 
may also be taught in the French language in those localities 
where the French language is spoken ; but no additional ex- 
pense shall be incurred for this cause. No public ^school in the 
State shall be opened later than 9 a. m. or closed earlier than 
3 p. m. ; this shall not be construed so as- to prevent half day 
sessions where the school accommodations are insufficient for 
all the pupils of the district in a whole day session. . Nor shall 
it interfere with any arrangements made for the conduct of the 
kindergarten schools ; pro^dded, that in the parish of Orleans the 
Board of School Directors may fix the hours of session of the 
public schools. A school week shall consist of five days and a 
school month of twenty days; and, no teacher shall be required 
to teach more than twenty days to be entitled to his or her salary 
for a school month. 

Section 49. Be it further enacted, etc., That before being 
examined each applicant for a certificate to teach shall pay a 
fee of one dollar. The money so received shall be forwarded to 
the State Superintendent of Public Education by the parish su- 
perintendent, along with the names. of the persons by whom it 
has been paid. 

The State Superintendent shall give to each parish super- 
intendent a receipt for the money, and he shall place all such 
funds to the credit of the State institute fund. A list of all 
moneys so received shall be forwarded to the State Board of 
Education. 

Section 53. Be it further enacted, etc.. That, to obtain a 
first grade certificate the applicant must be found competent to 
leach all branches required for a third grade and a second grade 
certificate, and also higher algebra, natural philosophy, and 
geometry; provided, that graduates of all institutions of learn- 
ings authorized to confer diplomas under the laws of this State, 
applying in examinations for first grade teachers certificates, be 
credited with having passed a satisfactory examination for said 
first grade teacher's certificate in such of the required subjects 



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as, by the president of said institution, may be certified to as 
having been completed in the course of study of the applicant, 
excepting theory and art of teaching as it applies to the sub- 
jects required for a first grade teacher's certificate, and to general 
school practices. 

Section 59. Be it further enacted, etc.. That diplomas con- 
ferred by the Peabody Normal School, located at Nashville, Ten- 
nessee, upon graduates of that institution, as also diplomas con- 
ferred by the State Normal School at Natchitoches, Louisiana, as 
also diplomas conferred upon the graduates of the Department 
of Philosophy and Education of the Louisiana State University 
and Agricultural and Mechanical College as also diplomas con- 
ferred upon the graduates of the City Normal School of New 
Orleans, Louisiana, shall entitle the holders thereof to a first 
grade certificate, valid in any town or parish of this State for 
four years from the date of graduation, at the expiration of 
which time certificates awarded to the graduates of the Peabody 
Normal may be renewed by the State Superintendent of Public 
Education upon satisfactory evidence of the ability, progress 
and moral character of applicants asking for such renewal ; cer- 
tificates awarded to graduates of the State Normal School may 
in like manner be renewed at the expiration of four years by the 
board of administrators by whom they were originally issued; 
certificates awarded to graduates of the Department of Philos- 
ophy and Education of the Louisiana State University and Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College may in like manner be re- 
newed at the expiration of four years by the board of adminis- 
trators, by whom they were originally issued; and certificates 
awarded to graduates of the City Normal School of New Orleans 
may in like manner be renewed at the expiration of four years 
by the board of directors by whom they were originally issued. 



Bird Day. 

Act No. 198. 

.\N ACT. 

For the protection of birds, other than gani'; birds, and their 
nests and eggs: specifying which species are non-game 
birds ; prohibiting trespass on bird breeding island ; prohibit- 
ing trapping; provding that such birds may be killed un- 
der certain conditions; providing for the punishment of 
violators thereof and for the disposition of all fines. 
Section 14. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the State a 'id 
Parish Boards of Public Education are directed to provide for 
the celebration, by all public schools, of "Bird Day," on May 
fifth of each year, being the anniversary of the birth of John 
James Audubon, the distinguished son of Louisiana. 

On the recurring anniversary days, suitable exercises are 



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to be engaged in, and lessons on the economic and esthetic value 
of the resident and migratory birds of the State are to be taught, 
by the teachers, to their pupils. 

Section 15. Be it further enacted, etc., That all acts or 
parts of acts heretofore inconsistent with or contrary to the pro- 
visions of this Act are hereby repealed. 



School Libraries. 

Act No. 202. 

AN ACT. 
To establish individual public schools and grade libraries for 
the public schools ; to provide for their purchase, care, and 
enlargement; and to provide penalties for the destruction 
of or taking and carrying away any part of libraries. 
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That whenever the patrons and friends of 
any individual school or grade of the free public schools in which 
a library has not already been established by aid of the parish 
board of school directors, shall raise by private subscription or 
otherwise and tender to the treasurer of the parish public school 
funds, for the establishment of a library to be connected with 
such school or grade, the sum of ten dollars, and the parish 
treasurer has so advised the secretary of the parish board of 
school directors, the said board at its next quarterly meeting 
shall appropriate from the public school funds the sum of ten 
dollars for this purpose, and shall appoint the teacher in charge 
of said school or grade the manager of such libraries; provided 
further, that at times other than during the school term, the 
library shall be kept in a locked case provided for under this Act. 
Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That as soon as the 
secretary of the parish board of school directors shall have re- 
ceived notice from the treasurer of the parish public school 
funds (and said notice should be served by the said treasurer, 
within five days after receipt of same) that a donation for a 
library for a certain school or grade has been made, the said 
secretary shall inform the State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
cation of the fact, wher'eupon the said State Superintendent shall 
furnish the said secretary a list of public school library books 
and prices therefor, said books and prices having been approved 
by the State Board of Education. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc.. That within five days 
after the parish board of school directors shall have made an 
appropriation for a library, the president and secretary of the 
board, with the assistance of the teacher in charge of the school 
or grade for which the appropriation was made, shall select 
from the aforesaid approved list of books for public school 
libraries, a list of books to be purchased for the said library, 
and shall submit the list of books to be purchased to the secre- 



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tary of the board, who shall order the books at once, and pay- 
ment for same shall be made by warrant upon the treasurer of 
the parish public school funds signed by the president and sec- 
retary of the parish board of school directors. Upon applica- 
tion of the parish superintendent, the parish board of school 
directors shall furnish, to each library, at the expense of the 
public school funds, a neat bookcase, with lock and key. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc.,. That the local man- 
ager of every library shall carry out such rules and regulations 
for the proper use and preservation of the books as may be 
established by the State Superintendent of Public Education, 
and shall on or before the tenth day of January of each year 
make to the State Sviperintendent of Public Education such 
report as he ,may require. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc.. That when the patrons 
and friends of any individual school or grade of the public 
school in which a library has been established for one year 
under the preceding sections of this Act, shall raise by private 
subscription or otherwise and tender to the treasurer of the 
parish public school funds the sum of five dollars for the en- 
largement of the library, the parish board of school directors 
shall appropriate from the money belonging to that school or 
grade not less than the sum of five dolalrs nor more than fifteen 
dollars. The money thus collected and appropriated shall be 
used for the enlargement of libraries already established under 
the same rules and restrictions as govern the establishment of 
new libraries; provided, that no more than one such appropria- 
tion shall be made each year for each school or grade. 

Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the legal pos- 
session and ownership of the books, cases and other appendages 
of the school or grade library, shall be and remain in the parish 
board of school directors and their successors in office, and that 
the felonious destruction or taking and carrying away thereof, 
or any part thereof, or of any books, article, apparatus or furni- 
ture, from or belonging to any public school house owned or 
used for public school purposes shall and is hereby declared to 
be larceny, and the breaking into such school house at night, 
with intent to commit larceny, as herein set forth, or any felony, 
shall and is hereby declared to be burglary, and that any larceny 
or burglary so committed shall be punished as in other cases 
under existing statutes. 



Expropriation of Property. 

Act No. 208. 

AN ACT. ■ 

To amend and re-enact Act No. 227 of 1902. approved July 10th, 
1902. entitled "An Act to amend and re-enact Act No. 96 
of 1896, approved July 9th, 1896. entitled "An Act to amend 



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and re-enact Section 1479 of the Revised Statutes of the 
State of Louisiana, as amended by Act 117 of 1886" relat- 
ing to the expropriation of property for purpose of charity 
• and public schools and providing herein by said amend- 
ments for the expropriation of property for the laying of 
pipe lines for natural gas for supplying the public with 
natural gas. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana, That Act No. 227 of 1902, approved July 
10th, 1902, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows : 
Whenever the State or any political corporation of tLc same, 
created for the purpose of exercising any portion of the govern- 
mental powers, in the same, or the board of administrators or 
directors of any charity hospital, or any board of school di- 
rectors thereof, or any corporation constituted under the laws 
of this State for the construction of railroads, plank roads, turn- 
pike roads, or canals for navigation, or for the construction or 
operation of water works or sewerage to supply the public with 
water and sewerage, (or for the Diping and marketing of natural 
gas for the purpose of supplying the public, with natural gas,) 
or for the purpose of transmitting intelligence by magnetic tele- 
graph, cannot agree with the owner of land which may be 
wanted for its purchase, it shall be lawful for such State, cor- 
poration, board of administrators, directors or person to apply 
by petition to the district court, in which the same may be 
situated, or if it extends into two districts, to the judge of the 
district court, in which the owner resides, and if the owner does 
not reside in either district, to either of the district courts 
describing the land necessary for the purposes, with a plan of 
the same, and a statement of the improvement thereon, if any, 
and the name of the owner thereof, if known at present in the 
State, with a prayer that the land be adjudged to such State, 
corporation, board of administrators or directors upon payment 
to the owner of all such damages as he may sustain in conse- 
quence of the expropriation of said land for such public works; 
all claims for lands or damages to the owner caused by its taking 
01' for expropriation for such Dublic work shall be barred by 
two (2) years' prescription which shall commence to run from 
the date at which the land was actually occupied and used for 
the construction of the works. 

Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That all the existing 
l?ws for the forms and processes of expropriation of property 
shall be applicable to the said act and section thus amended and 
re-enacted. 

Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc.. That all laws or parts 
of law3 in conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this 
Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 



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